Quotes About Growth

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like — then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Change your ways when fear seizes," he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Uneori progresul este cel are m?soara decaden?a.

Pablo Picasso once remarked, 'One starts to get young at the age of sixty.

Eisenhower studied his mistakes. "We are learning something every day, and in general do not make the same mistake twice."9 Ike learned to be tougher with subordinates such as Fredendall. "Officers that fail must be ruthlessly weeded out," Eisenhower wrote his old friend Leonard Gerow. "Considerations of friendship, family, kindness, and nice personality have nothing to do with the problem.… You must be tough.

I long to see Christ's life formed in me. I want to become the person God had in mind when He created me.

It is never too soon to prepare for the rest of our lives. The truth is that everyone, regardless of age, is already setting patterns for the shape of his or her life. These patterns of thought and practice will either serve the glory and purposes of God or hinder them.

God is not asking me to number my days to increase my pace but rather to examine my route, not to increase my efficiency but to see where I must make course corrections in heart, character, and actions.

Humility can only be born out of humiliation

je toucherais le corps d'un chêne.

Rice comes to life in water and should die in wine.

É costume dizer-se que o Homem é feito de células e sangue. Mas, na realidade, ele é como as folhas das árvores. É preciso que o vento lhes sopre para se ouvir o seu cantar.

Una sociedad crece cuando los ancianos plantan árboles bajo cuya sombra saben que nunca se sentarán

Her body was fermenting like new wine.

Si on pouvait seulement aller jusqu'au premier peuplier ! Le voilà ; puis le deuxième, le troisième !

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Getting old always means a hardening of the main trait of one's character.

Malaga Alves." Obviously. Everything that rises must converge.

Humanism, he continued, leaning toward his colleagues with the zeal of his conviction even as he stumbled over his words, that holds as its core value the belief that human beings can learn and grow and change, and that art—and literature—can fuel that evolution. But